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Last year’s cookbook haul (which included Nigella, Nigel, Rick and Hugh) was so good I didn’t think it could get any better, but this autumn, traditionally the time when cookbook publishers push out their biggest titles, is full of tomes I’ll have to make room for.

There are books by the starriest names – Jamie has done Italy and Deliciously Ella has cooked with more plants – but the key thing about this season’s crop is originality and diversity.

There are books on food from Shetland, Germany and the Black Sea, and slightly mad titles written by knowledgeable enthusiasts, such as Let’s Eat France by François-Régis Gaudry.

There’s a lot of thinking going on about the process of cooking as well,...